09/06/2026
This article by ThePrint explains the Right to be Forgotten really well:
https://theprint.in/opinion/delhi-hc-order-on-the-right-to-be-forgotten/2954064/
"Article 17 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), under the right to erasure.
The moral argument is simple and intuitive.
Humans forget when machines do not.
A person is entitled to some distance from their worst day.
This is the right to be left alone, restated for a medium that has abolished the natural decay of memory.
Nobody needs to be reminded ad nauseam of an arrest that ended in acquittal, a complaint that ended in a closure report, or a marriage that ended in court.
A person mentioned incidentally in litigation should not spend the rest of their life explaining a case that was never really about them."
Indians have a right to be forgotten—though courts, Google, media & AI all remember too well.